‘Our long-term objective is to make printing a subscription’ says HP CEO gunning for 2024’s Worst Person of the Year award | Not satisfied with merely bricking printers, HP now wants to own them al…::It was only the other day we reported how HP has been slapped with a lawsuit in response to measures that disable its printers when fitted with a third-party ink cartridge. Now the company’s CEO,

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      9 months ago

      Their cheap. HP lowest end printers were always cheaper then the ink. Customers buy the wireless ink with a subscription and think it’s a convenience. It’s a scam but it’s a scam that works.

      Basically now that everyone is poor this is how tech companies will address customer needs: low barrier for every and a subscription.